Another Blog Entry!

So many things going on! Installations at The Beat Coffeehouse & Espresso Royale Downtown are up! These are a couple of pictures of Espresso Royale. Very cool location — the lights are on even after close and the massive windows face Hennepin Avenue.


Also at Espresso Royale is the NEW GUMBALL MACHINE — drum-roll please…

The Beat has an open “common room” with a PA permanently wired up — it would be a great place for a Boxy event with some live music. It might be a little too much to handle right now…a decision will be made in the next week or so. A big event is going to happen soon. It’s just a matter of when.

It’s a fun time right now — a bit of a buzz is in the air. No time to focus on that though — work has begun on some new interesting things for the Caffetto Coffee House & Captain Cosmic’s Coffee shows in October. Fingers are still crossed for the Craft-o-rama gig. If that pans out, things get busy indeed. Vive, vive le Boxy Mouse.

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Supplement to Bi-Monthly Post

A couple more bits of interesting info in the Boxy Mouse world:

Boxy Mouse’s nest in the Manufactory store has expanded a bit. It’s been a great relationship, and items have been selling. Can’t be bad. Plus, Boxy Mouse is in good company — look at all the other great stuff! You might want to stop by next time you’re in Uptown MSP. Yep, you probably should.

Rumor has it a Boxy Jellyfish tattoo exists on a human! If a photo and a mailing address are sent to mail@boxymouse.com, some nice nice things to match your ink will be shipped out posthaste.

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The Bi-Monthly Post?

Facebook has been the primary internet communication method over the last couple months — apologies for the lack of traditional bloggage. Things around here keep getting more interesting — lots of stuff coming up. Here’s a brief recap:

Some new shows have been added to the Infestation Tour:
September: The Beat Coffeehouse & Espresso Royale Downtown
October: Caffetto Coffee House & Captain Cosmic’s Coffee
December: the tea garden on Grand Ave
(*one last boo to the Coffee News Cafe for flaking out for July & August)

Many new paintings were finished in the last two months. Here’s a couple notable examples…

The “Boxy Jay” painting sold in July (the Jellyfish were notably jealous), so a new one had to be made:

There hadn’t been any Boxy Bones paintings for quite some time, so they got a special treatment (more annoyed Jellyfish):

You might notice the lack of a “Boxy Store” link at the top. Well, the store broke and it is not worthy of fixing. A new method of online sales will be offered this Fall. However, you might also see the new “Phone Wallpapers” link — this is a direct link to the mysteriously buried phone wallpapers that people seem to enjoy.

Lastly, the application for the No Coast Craft-o-rama (a cool art fair in December) was completed today. Here’s to hoping that Boxy Mouse can be a part of it this year!

Vive le Boxy Mouse!

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5 More For June

These new canvases (plus many older ones and lots of prints) will be on display in Coffee News Cafe during the months of July and August. More paintings coming in July!

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Boxy Mouse News.

So many fun things going on right now! Paintings are being painted, Boxy Mice are being purchased by humans, and a new batch of stuff was dropped off at the Manufactory store. Also…

Boxy Mouse got some press! A Minneapolis online magazine called South of Canada chose Boxy Mouse as the featured artist, and has allowed 3 Boxy Mice to perch on their banner for a couple months. Don’t fall off little guys, we’re counting on you to represent the company!

At long last a vending machine (Boxy Mouse Button Dispensary) is out in the public. It will be at Tarraccino Coffee until the end of June and will follow the art around on the Infestation Tour.

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The Next 4.

The paintings keep coming, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop any time soon. More to come in June!


These are hand-painted (not stencil-painted) on a hand-built canvas. Each painting is a unique 1 of 1 — no color/size/subject combination will be duplicated. Currently, the price is $80-$125 depending on the complexity. Send an email to mail@boxymouse.com if you can’t not have one.

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The Boxy Mouse Story – Part 2

Part one of this story ended with a couple square mouse designs, but that’s about it. So, how did the whole “Boxy” concept blossom? The key was in the second Boxy design — the Boxy Jellyfish!

The Boxy Jellyfish origin can be traced to a sign on a beach in Thailand.

The phrase was amusing, the illustration needed improvement, and a new CD mix needed a cover design. It’s nearly impossible to describe the connections that needed to happen to get from point A to B, so let’s just say it was the perfect combination for this to happen:

With the Boxy Jellyfish design (and stickers!) came a new understanding of what this thing could be, and the hunt for a name was on. Many names were considered…Square Mouse, Cube Mouse, Box Mouse. The determining factor at the time was the availability of the boxymouse.com domain name. Thank goodness — it turned out to be catchy and perfect! And so in February 2009, more than a year after it first appeared, Boxy Mouse had a name — it would be a tribute to the little mouse named Jasmine. The original Super Boxy Funtime Sticker Pack™ soon followed.
Many of these sticker packs were given away, and a lovely thing started happening — people were emailing pictures of stickers in various locations. What fun(time)!

Sometimes people would dispense with the stickers altogether:

So in about 6 months time several hundred Boxy Mice stickers were released. Many people of all ages seemed to get it and the Funtime was just beginning! In our next installment, new Boxy characters are introduced, Boxy Mouse travels out of the country, and new “products” are introduced. Vive le Boxy Mouse!

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Paintings! Paintings Here!

Things are hotting up here at the studio. Four new paintings are complete! Many more to come through the Spring and into the Summer.


These are hand-painted (not stencil-painted) on a hand-built canvas. Each painting is a unique 1 of 1 — no color/size/subject combination will be duplicated. Currently, the price is $80-$125 depending on the complexity. Send an email to mail@boxymouse.com if you can’t not have one.

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The New Paintings Have Started

Here we go again!

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Boxy Mouse Has Left The Luce

The excellent run at Pizza Luce Uptown has come to a close. What a nice place and a great bunch of people. Hopefully it won’t be too long before a new bunch of Boxy Mice are invited back again. That being said, Dunn Bros Coffee Lab still has a nice collection on display, and there are a bunch of things on the schedule:

June
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Taraccino Coffee
Espresso Royale – Dinkytown

July
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Coffee News Cafe

August
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Coffee News Cafe
(continued)

September
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The Beat Coffeehouse
*A cool event might go down here — stay tuned.

October
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Caffetto Coffee House

Still looking for November & December locations. If you have any ideas, send an email to mail@boxymouse.com.

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